Incandescent-mantle support.



Patented Sept. I2, |899.

(Application led Oct. 24, 189B.)

(No Model.)

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iNCANDESCENT-MANTLE SU PPORT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 633,052, dated September 12, 1899.

Application filed October 24,1898.

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Bc it known that l, LEOPOLD STIASSNY, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residingI at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Incandescent-Mantle Supl ports, of which the following is a specification.

By means of this invention a mantle can be supported so as to be universally movable or capable of swinging or yielding in any direction, as also to move or yield vertically, so that such mantle will be relieved from shocks or destructive vibrations, as caused, for example, by the passage of vehicles in a street, by the slamming of doors, by dancing, or by moving machinery or the like.

This invention is set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a sectional elevation of the mantle. Fig. 2 is a section along Qc, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view at right angles to Fig. 1.

In Figs. l and 2 is shown the box A with cover B, in which the mantle can be shipped or stored before use, but which box and cover have nothing to do with the invention and are removed in Fig. 3.

The mantle 1 is shown with a carrier, which can be variously formed. A convenient carrier is obtained by two eyelet-sections 2 and 3 of suitable metal or material-as, for eX- ample, asbestos. The section 2 beinginserted into or passed through the upper opening of the mantle and this section, with the mantle, being passed into or through ring4, of circular or other suitable shape, and the section 3 being then secured or riveted to section 2, the mantle is held to or suspended from ring 4. The flanges 5 and 6 of the fastener 2 3 are so far apart as to allow the carrier or fastener 2 3 to move or yield vertically in the ring 4, thus neutralizing vertical shocks or vibrations. The stern or body portion 2 5 of the fastener is small or of such diameter as to be loose in or not clasped by ring 4, thus allowing the mantle to swing or yield horizontally.

The fastener 2 5 may be considered as a mantle-carrier, the flange 5 preventing the mantle slipping down or falling off, and the flanges 5 and being large enough to prevent disengagement from ring 4. rlhe ring 4 is Serial Not 694,407. (No model.)

provided with or forms part of arms 7, which extend radially from the ring 4, and said arms are shown fixed or secured to a main carrier orsupporting-ring 8 ot' suitable material, having stem 9 l0, the vertical portion 10 of which can be suitably secured at a burner. The arms 7 being fixed or firmly clamped to ring S cannot shift or become displaced thereon.

In the manufacture it has been found practical to secure the ring 4 to the main carrier S, after which the mantle, with section 2, can be passed into ring 4 and loosely flanged or seen red thereto or connected to section 3. The mantle could be provided with a lining or metal bushing l1, in which the mantle-carrier 2 3 is seated; but it has been found practical to pass the mantle-carrier directly through the mantle without the use of bushing 11.

In United States Patent No. 6l1,527,grauted September 27, 1898, where the movability of the mantle is obtained by the rin g-arms loosely connecting with the main carrier-ring, there is not the universal freedom of movement for the mantle secured by this present invention, and the loosely-connected arms of said patent are liable to slipping or dislocation. It is also to be noted that when the mantle is not free to swing or move universally considerable care has to be taken to place the mantle properly or vertically over the light, while a universally-swinging mantle, as shown in this application, will of itself assume a correct or vertical position.

In case the mantleis being shipped or trans ported in borg A, and thelatter is laid or rolled on its side, the mantle 1 being universally movable can rest or lie with its free end on the wall of box or cylinder' A, so as to be suitably supported against breaking or snapping to pieces. Y

The mantle can be burned either before or after being connected to carrier 2 3, and a practical method has been found to burn the mantle before being connected to the carrier, forming a well-known loop-mantle and which can be sold or used as such or which can have the loop portion cut off for the insertion of the attachment 2 3.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a support, of a mantle-carrier universally movable with re- IOO spect thereto and provided with flanges for limiting the upward and downward movement thereof, and a mantle clasped about the carrier between the flanges so as to be supported or held in place by the lower flange.

2. The combination with a supporting-ring of a mantle-carrier extending loosely through said ring and provided with flanges which engage it, substantially as described.

3. A ring provided with radial arms, a mantle-carrier loosely flanged to said ring, and a ring to which said arms are fixed or clamped, substantially as described.

4. The combination with supporting-arms having a ring, of a mantle-carrying eyelet loosely flanged to the ring so as to be universally movable substantially as described.

5. The combination with supporting-arms having a ring, of a mantle-carrying eyelet loosely connected to the ring, and a main carrier to which the arms are fixed or immovably secured substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEOPOLD STIASSNY.

\Vitnesses:

W. C. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

